Bell System
Telecommunications company
The Bell System was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over 100 years from its... Wikipedia
Parent organizations: AT&T Corporation and Bell Telephone Company
Founders: Alexander Graham Bell, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, and Theodore Newton Vail
Founded: 1877
Phone company: AT&T companies
Defunct: January 8, 1982; 42 years ago
Fate: Breakup of the Bell System